May 23-26
Chicago IL

Learn from the experts during Maintenance Track sessions at the Maintenance & Reliability Technology Summit (MARTS), May 23-26, 2005 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, IL, near Chicago’s O’Hare Airport.

Landmark sessions include:

MARTS Enterprise Managers Forum—Discussion with Brad Peterson, president and CEO of Strategic Asset Management, Inc., and members of the new Center for Enterprise Asset Management (CEAM).

The Role of Preventive and Predictive Maintenance in Successful Planning—Ken Bass, CMRP. The potential failure-failure (p-f) curve will be discussed to aid in the understanding of the power of the predictive/preventive maintenance functions.

Maintenance Outsourcing—Brad McCully, ATS. Learn how maintenance operations can serve as a profit center, with no additional capital investment.

Managing Maintenance Inventory—Terry Wireman, CPMM, author and maintenance educator. Depending on the industry, maintenance spare parts can comprise from 40-60 percent of the total maintenance budget.

Maintenance Metrics for the Millennium—Ramesh Gulati, PE, CMRP, and Jerry D. Kahn, PE, CMRP. You will be updated on the most commonly used metrics and definitions in the maintenance and reliability community (e.g., MTBF, downtime, etc.). Learn the current status of the SMRP metrics development and have the opportunity to provide feedback in open forum discussions.

Best Practices Maintenance Management Benchmark Survey—Terry Wireman, CPMM, author and maintenance educator, and Terrence O’Hanlon, CMRP, publisher, ReliabilityWeb.com. The results of a year-long 16-part Best Practices Maintenance Management benchmarking project are reported and analyzed. Each attendee will receive the full survey report and summary.

Visit the Conference MARTS Web site to learn more